Tuesday, April 19, 2011

[Geology2] Paleo news

Japanese cartoonist returns fossil jawbone [I love when that happens]Xinhua News Agency [China], 2011-04-15 Probactrosaurus gobiensis, an early herbivorous dinosaur that lived inChina about 97.5 to 91 million years ago, got back a fossil of its lowerjawbone on Thursday after having lost it nearly 50 years ago. NobuyukiOkada, a Japanese dinosaur cartoonist, accidentally bought theherbivore's fossilized bone at an international fossil market.Discovering what he had, he decided to turn it over to Institute ofVertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy ofSciences.

Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and theChinese Academy of Sciences announce the discovery of Liaoconodon hui, acomplete fossil mammal from the Mesozoic found in China that includesthe long-sought transitional middle ear. The specimen shows the bonesassociated with hearing in mammals ï¿½ the malleus, incus, andectotympanic ï¿½ decoupled from the lower jaw, as had been predicted,but were held in place by an ossified cartilage that rested in a grooveon the lower jaw. The new research, published in Nature this week, alsosuggests that the middle ear evolved at least twice in mammals, formonotremes and for the marsupial-placental group.

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